Monday, July 9, 2012

Another
gunman behind the slay try on the Daily Tribune reporter Fernan Angeles
last March was arrested but not by the task force created to go after
the newsman’s assailants but by the lowly cops assigned to the community
precinct.

Junior Ambor, also known as Junior Buang and Junior
Praning, was arrested with several other individuals following a call
complaining against a group of armed men along Baltazar Street in
Pinagbuhatan, Pasig City bullying residents, extorting money from
people and poking guns at those who refused to give.

Angeles, who has
resumed writing for the Tribune since May, was advised by community
precinct commander Senior Insp. Cesario Tubog to come to the police
station to identify one of the suspects they arrested. As it turned out,
one of their hauls was positively identified as the one who fired the
second shot that hit Angeles in the back.

Tubog personally led the team that went to arrest Ambor and his gang. Seized from Ambor was a short firearm of unknown caliber..... MORE